“Life outside your craft is just as important as practicing it, if not more.” Smart Blogger When my date, Roger, saw my map with magnets of the twelve states I visited, he said, “We’ll have to fill in the rest.” This man is a keeper, I thought. He likes to travel as much as I …
Category: Writers
Apr 05
The Sims Experience
When I was much younger, I used to love seeing the stories I wrote come to life. This usually entailed using my collection of My Little Ponies to act out the story, each of them representing a certain character therein. Sometime during my teenage years, I obtained an obscure PC game that let the user …
Mar 23
You Are the Shadow
The invitation arrived only a week ago: ‘The Presence of your company is graciously requested,’ it began. Arriving by registered mail, it included three, one-hundred-dollar bills for ancillary expenses and one round trip airfare. Now, with the Sun about to rise, you are walking through a metal detector, about to board a bus with dozens …
Mar 21
Our Lucky Day!!!
I don’t often think about luck, good or bad. I feel life mostly turns out for the best. And, if I have a few lucky breaks along the way, so much the better. You are probably wondering, why am I writing about luck? This is my story. Last year I booked an ocean cruise …
Mar 18
Coffee Shop Chronicles: Making friends in coffee shops, Part 1
The Fine Grind, a coffee bar Little Falls, NJ March 2017 It’s my second week in New Jersey, and I see a woman in a yellow University of Michigan sweatshirt. Really? I live in some vortex that I can’t escape my former home state. Are there more of them? I scan the room. The big …